The Redragon Blade is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched in 2022. It is available in capacities ranging from 512 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 512 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Redragon Blade interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the MAP1602A Falcon Lite from MaxioTech, a DRAM cache is not available. Redragon has installed 232-layer TLC NAND flash on the Blade, the flash chips are made by YMTC. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are absorbed more quickly. The cache is sized at 83 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 840 MB/s. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 390 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Blade is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 7,050 MB/s and 4,200 MB/s write; random IO reaches 710K IOPS for read and 640K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 59 USD. The warranty length is set to one year, which is quite short for the SSD industry. Redragon guarantees an endurance rating of 900 TBW, a very high value, making this drive a good choice for write-intensive enterprise applications.